Journal rankings · indicator year 2003
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Field ranking · 2003
Engineering journal rankings 2003
1,119 ranked journals · Field in Physical Sciences
Engineering has 1,119 ranked journals in 2003. The median OJR rose 0.06 on 2002 to 0.76, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.51. The top three are Materials Science and Engineering R Reports, Progress in Energy and Combustion Science, and Digest of technical papers/Digest of technical papers - IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2003. Journal access status and listed APC: source snapshot September 23, 2026.
Journals whose main subfield sits in this category and that published at least 30 citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) in 2000–2002, the window the 2003 score is computed on.
The OpenJournalRank Indicator (OJR) is a free, publicly available metric of a journal’s field-normalized citation impact, computed from open OpenAlex citation data. It compares citations to a journal’s papers from the previous three years with the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type, so 1.00 is the world average and values can be compared across fields. It is computed with the NCI3 method.
The middle OJR among ranked journals in this category: half score higher, half lower. 1.00 is the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type.
The dot is this category, the solid tick is the median of all ranked journals and the dashed line is the world average.
Share of ranked journals in this category that are fully open access, so every paper is free to read. Hybrid journals, which sell subscriptions and open single papers for a fee, are not counted.
Median list price of the article processing charge, in US dollars, among ranked journals in this category that list a price above zero. Journals with a listed APC of $0 and journals with no known price are left out of this median. The At a glance table below gives a second median that includes the $0 prices.
Subfields in Engineering (16)
Up to Physical Sciences- Electrical and Electronic Engineering232
- Mechanical Engineering181
- Aerospace Engineering118
- Civil and Structural Engineering110
- Biomedical Engineering107
- Mechanics of Materials90
- Computational Mechanics74
- Control and Systems Engineering70
- Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering37
- Building and Construction33
- Ocean Engineering30
- Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality16
Show all 16 subfields
1,119 ranked journals
Filters
Rank is the position by OJR within the list on screen; 1 is the highest. | OJR is field-normalized 3-year citation impact: 1.00 is the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type, so values compare across fields. The badge is the journal’s quartile in this list. | Citations per paper over a two-year window, counted from OpenAlex. It is not field-normalized, so compare it only between journals of the same field. ▲ or ▼ is the change from 2002. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2000–2002, the window the 2003 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2000–2002 papers that are free to read in any open-access form. The green OA tag next to a title marks a fully open-access journal. | List price of the article processing charge in US dollars. “$0 listed” means the listed price is zero; a dash means no price is listed. | The line is the journal’s OJR from 2000 to 2003. | Compare |
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1Materials Science and Engineering R ReportsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 13.40Q1 | 11.06 0.22 down from 2002 | 47 | 0% | $6,150 | ||
2Progress in Energy and Combustion ScienceElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 7.03Q1 | 4.14 0.51 down from 2002 | 49 | 0% | $6,990 | ||
3Digest of technical papers/Digest of technical papers - IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided DesignAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 6.76Q1 | 2.46no 2002 value | 117 | — | — | — | |
4Journal of Composites for ConstructionAmerican Society of Civil Engineers · United States | 6.00Q1 | 1.73 0.26 up from 2002 | 118 | 2% | — | ||
5IEEE Communications MagazineInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 5.82Q1 | 5.02 0.78 up from 2002 | 620 | 6% | $2,995 | ||
6AutomaticaElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 5.73Q1 | 2.47 0.37 up from 2002 | 713 | 6% | $3,760 | ||
7Transportation ScienceInstitute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences · United States | 5.64Q1 | 1.69 0.03 down from 2002 | 90 | 14% | — | ||
8IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in CommunicationsInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 5.44Q1 | 4.54 0.87 up from 2002 | 598 | 7% | $2,645 | ||
9IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy SystemsInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 5.28Q1 | 3.05 0.20 down from 2002 | 217 | 6% | $2,645 | ||
10IEEE Wireless CommunicationsInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 5.24Q1 | 4.07no 2002 value | 59 | 5% | $2,995 | — | |
11Applied Mechanics ReviewsAmerican Society of Mechanical Engineers · United States | 5.12Q1 | 3.16 0.87 up from 2002 | 279 | 24% | — | ||
12IEEE Transactions on Robotics and AutomationInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 5.03Q1 | 3.19 1.02 up from 2002 | 286 | 12% | — | ||
13Progress in Aerospace SciencesElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 5.01Q1 | 3.38 1.11 up from 2002 | 52 | 5% | $5,860 | ||
14IEEE Transactions on Automatic ControlInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 4.96Q1 | 2.60 0.48 up from 2002 | 957 | 8% | $2,645 | ||
15Journal of TurbomachineryASM International · United States | 4.78Q1 | 1.05 0.23 up from 2002 | 200 | 5% | — | ||
16Advanced MaterialsGermany | 4.71Q1 | 6.60 2.15 up from 2002 | 1,460 | 6% | $6,070 | ||
17IEEE Robotics & Automation MagazineInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 4.68Q1 | 1.64 0.41 down from 2002 | 68 | 11% | $2,045 | ||
18Proceedings of the IEEEInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 4.64Q1 | 4.07 0.51 up from 2002 | 406 | 6% | $2,645 | ||
19IEEE Control SystemsInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 4.62Q1 | 2.82 0.48 up from 2002 | 132 | 6% | — | ||
20Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of SolidsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 4.44Q1 | 3.51 0.66 up from 2002 | 359 | 8% | $4,220 | ||
21National Cooperative Highway Research Program reportUnited States | 4.25Q1 | 1.33 0.62 up from 2002 | 33 | 0% | — | ||
22Design StudiesElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 4.21Q1 | 1.36 0.62 down from 2002 | 105 | 15% | $4,570 | ||
23IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation SystemsInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 4.20Q1 | 1.72 0.41 up from 2002 | 75 | 4% | $2,645 | ||
24Journal of Guidance Control and DynamicsAmerican Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics · United States | 4.18Q1 | 1.57 0.41 up from 2002 | 534 | 4% | — | ||
25IEEE Transactions on Control Systems TechnologyInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 4.06Q1 | 1.91 0.07 down from 2002 | 269 | 3% | $2,645 | ||
26International Materials ReviewsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 3.97Q1 | 3.13 1.70 up from 2002 | 35 | 0% | $4,400 | ||
27Research in Engineering DesignSpringer Science+Business Media · United Kingdom | 3.92Q1 | 2.40 1.02 up from 2002 | 39 | 10% | $4,090 | ||
28Volume 3: Heat Transfer; Electric Power; Industrial and CogenerationPublisher not listed | 3.78Q1 | 0.93 0.44 up from 2002 | 283 | — | — | ||
29SIAM Journal on OptimizationSociety for Industrial and Applied Mathematics · United States | 3.77Q1 | 2.79 0.60 up from 2002 | 208 | 22% | — | ||
30Organic ElectronicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.76Q1 | 3.73 0.53 down from 2002 | 41 | 5% | $3,650 | ||
31Journal of Process ControlElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.75Q1 | 1.54 0.15 down from 2002 | 212 | 2% | $3,700 | ||
32Journal of Microelectromechanical SystemsInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 3.72Q1 | 3.68 0.11 up from 2002 | 238 | 4% | $2,645 | ||
33IBM Journal of Research and DevelopmentIBM · United States | 3.65Q1 | 3.98 0.83 up from 2002 | 180 | 2% | — | ||
34IEEE Transactions on Wireless CommunicationsInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 3.57Q1 | 2.73no 2002 value | 83 | 4% | $2,645 | — | |
35IEEE Journal of Solid-State CircuitsInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 3.57Q1 | 3.70 1.09 up from 2002 | 830 | 3% | $2,645 | ||
36Systems & Control LettersElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.41Q1 | 1.61 0.17 up from 2002 | 360 | 9% | $2,910 | ||
37IEEE Transactions on CommunicationsIEEE Communications Society · United States | 3.40Q1 | 3.27 0.69 up from 2002 | 774 | 4% | $2,645 | ||
38ASHRAE winter conference papersAmerican Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers · United States | 3.37Q1 | 0.53 0.22 up from 2002 | 48 | 0% | — | ||
39IEEE/ASME Transactions on MechatronicsInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 3.31Q1 | 1.67 0.20 up from 2002 | 159 | 3% | $2,645 | ||
40SIAM Journal on Control and OptimizationSociety for Industrial and Applied Mathematics · United States | 3.30Q1 | 1.83 0.13 down from 2002 | 327 | 13% | — | ||
41Chemistry of MaterialsAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 3.29Q1 | 4.19 0.51 up from 2002 | 2,046 | 4% | $4,500 | ||
42Bell Labs Technical JournalWiley · United States | 3.21Q1 | 2.18no 2002 value | 304 | 0% | — | ||
43ACI Materials JournalAmerican Concrete Institute · United States | 3.19Q1 | 0.83 0.30 up from 2002 | 208 | 2% | — | ||
44SIAM Journal on Scientific ComputingSociety for Industrial and Applied Mathematics · United States | 3.16Q1 | 2.49 0.43 up from 2002 | 293 | 9% | — | ||
45Transportation Research Part C Emerging TechnologiesElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.15Q1 | 1.13 0.07 up from 2002 | 78 | 6% | $4,040 | ||
46Telecommunications PolicyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.04Q1 | 1.53 0.57 up from 2002 | 181 | 0% | $3,870 | ||
47Engineering Fracture MechanicsElsevier BV · United States | 3.00Q1 | 1.85 0.62 up from 2002 | 417 | 7% | $4,120 | ||
48Journal of Computational PhysicsElsevier BV · United States | 2.94Q1 | 3.00 0.63 up from 2002 | 756 | 12% | $3,980 | ||
49Advanced Functional MaterialsWiley · Germany | 2.92Q1 | 3.49 1.50 up from 2002 | 230 | 2% | $5,790 | ||
50Mathematics of Control Signals and SystemsSpringer Science+Business Media · United Kingdom | 2.88Q1 | 1.46 0.08 up from 2002 | 45 | 17% | $3,190 |
Subfields of Engineering, compared.
- Electrical and Electronic Engineering232
- Mechanical Engineering181
- Aerospace Engineering118
- Civil and Structural Engineering110
- Biomedical Engineering107
- Mechanics of Materials90
- Computational Mechanics74
- Control and Systems Engineering70
- Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering37
- Building and Construction33
- Ocean Engineering30
- Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality16
- Media Technology11
- Automotive Engineering10
- Architecture0
- General Engineering0
Journals
Citations made in 2003. Corpus-wide, 70.2% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
381 additional Engineering journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2000–2002, at least 80% of them with a subfield, and a positive world-average expectation. Ranks are within the whole category; filters hide rows without re-ranking. OJR excludes self-citations.
At a glance
Indicator year: 2003. Publication window: 2000–2002. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 1,119
- Window papers (baseline)
- 1,745,451 +34.1% from indicator year 2000
- Median OJR
- 0.758 +20.1% from indicator year 2000
- Rising journals (2025)
- 211Comparison-group list (211)
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2000–2002 in all journals of the world-average baseline, including non-core journals, counted by each paper’s own subfield. They are not the papers of the ranked journals alone.
| Measure | Year series | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ranked journals | 945 | 1,010 | 1,072 | 1,119 | 1,159 | 1,217 | 1,256 | 1,342 | 1,445 | 1,529 | 1,578 | 1,672 | 1,774 | 1,899 | 2,001 | 2,106 | 2,188 | 2,239 | 2,290 | 2,358 | 2,389 | 2,428 | 2,444 | 2,437 | 2,442 | 2,405 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 1,301,932 | 1,430,070 | 1,586,509 | 1,745,451 | 1,896,138 | 2,058,422 | 2,234,640 | 2,416,744 | 2,583,093 | 2,754,522 | 2,914,777 | 3,076,735 | 3,239,027 | 3,369,091 | 3,484,492 | 3,569,888 | 3,612,080 | 3,500,235 | 3,153,056 | 2,758,725 | 2,539,069 | 2,563,396 | 2,580,513 | 2,422,273 | 2,259,750 | 2,274,258 | |
| Median OJR | 0.63 | 0.65 | 0.694 | 0.758 | 0.75 | 0.7777 | 0.7782 | 0.77 | 0.7930 | 0.80 | 0.820 | 0.822 | 0.7933 | 0.765 | 0.756 | 0.72 | 0.73 | 0.692 | 0.670 | 0.6705 | 0.68 | 0.70 | 0.689 | 0.688 | 0.669 | 0.6714 |
| Measure | Category statistic | Eligible population |
|---|---|---|
| Journal self-citation share | Median: 4.9% | 1,952 journals |
| Retracted papers per 1,000 | Pooled rate: 1.935 per 1,000 | 1,719 journals |
| Output growth | Median: +3.7% | 2,142 journals |
| Open access share | Median: 53.0% | 2,405 journals |
| Listed APC (USD) | Median including $0 listed prices: $2,890 | 1,349 ranked journals with a known listed price, including $0 listed prices |
| International collaboration share | Median: 22.2% | 2,312 journals |
| Review share | Median: 0.0% | 2,405 journals |
| Articles-only OJR | Median: 0.67 | 2,362 journals |
| Uncited share | Median: 29.8% | 2,405 journals |
| Citation concentration | Median: 43.9% | 2,402 journals |
How to read these rankings
- OJR, the OpenJournalRank Indicator
- A field-normalized 3-year citation impact, computed from OpenAlex with the NCI3 method. It divides the citations a journal’s papers received by the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type, so 1.00 is the world average and 2.00 means twice as many citations as expected. Because it is normalized, it can be compared across fields. Read the methodology
- Quartiles
- Q1 to Q4 split the ranked journals of the list you are viewing into four equal groups by OJR. A journal’s quartile depends on the list: the same journal can be Q1 in its subfield and Q2 among all journals.
- Impact factor (2-year)
- Citations per paper over a two-year window, counted from OpenAlex. It is easy to compare with familiar impact factors but is not field-normalized, so compare it only within a field. It is not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. Why it differs from the Journal Impact Factor
- Rank ranges
- Each rank in the latest year carries a likely range from 1,000 resamples of the journal’s papers. Where two journals’ ranges overlap, the data cannot tell them apart, so treat neighbouring ranks as ties.